Identifying the essence of a latent psychological attribute captured by a measurement instrument requires more than a glance at the measure's indicators or confidence in an established measurement practice. It demands an exploration of the nomological network in which an attribute (e.g., environmental attitude) is theoretically anticipated to operate. With our study, we aimed to identify the General Ecological Behavior (GEB) scale as a Campbell-paradigm-based measure of environmental attitude. In our empirical test (N = 183), we juxtaposed the two estimated parameters—behavioral costs and what is believed to represent environmental attitude—with real costs. To do so, costs were manipulated as objective waiting times that differentiated between otherwise identical pro-environmental behaviors. Our findings corroborate the idea that the GEB's cost estimates reflect actual behavioral costs. Furthermore, progressively increasing costs were the expected progressive impediment of behavior that, according to Campbell's paradigm, environmental attitude is presumed to offset.

识别测量仪器所捕获的潜在心理属性的本质，不仅仅需要看一下该测量的指标或对已建立的测量实践的信心。这要求对在理论上预期会起作用的属性（例如，环境态度）的名词学网络进行探索。通过我们的研究，我们旨在确定一般生态行为（GEB）量表作为基于Campbell范式的环境态度量度。在我们的经验检验（N  = 183）中，我们将两个估计参数（行为成本和认为代表环境态度的参数）与实际费用。为此，将成本作为客观的等待时间进行操纵，从而在其他相同的环保行为之间进行区分。我们的发现证实了GEB的成本估算反映了实际的行为成本这一观点。此外，逐渐增加的成本是行为的预期渐进障碍，根据坎贝尔的范例，假定环境态度已被抵消。